Euro travel plug and UK extension lead

[LaserTam]

I decided this is probably best place to ask this.

I remember many years ago, taking a travel plug and a UK 4 gang extension lead on hols, but found it didn't work for some reason.

Upcoming trip where I will probably need few things plugged in together, I'm now thinking the gang socket would be good. Any reason why this wouldn't work? Maybe I was just unlucky last time. I will be in the middle of nowhere, so popping somewhere to purchase alternatives if it doesn't work might be an issue.

Anyone done this with no issues?

[miniman]

Have done it loads of times

[Scrump]

Has always worked for me.

ETA: after seeing the later replies I realised that I didn’t say that I have changed the UK plug to a Euro one rather than use an adaptor. Also did similar when in Australia.

Edited by Scrump on Friday 22 July 13:09

[RedWhiteMonkey]

Its fine. When we have UK visitors over here in Germany we give them exactly this, a UK 4 way extension lead attached to a UK to EU plug adaptor.

[shirt]

This is what I do as well, just I also changed the plug to a euro one rather than use an adaptor

[ecsrobin]

We use an anker USB hub to charge everything overseas. It uses a figure of 8 lead so purchased an EU one on Amazon at works fine and is a lot more compact than an extension and adaptor.

[DrJNA]

I moved to Germany last year and brought most of my UK electronics with me, most I still power with exactly this set-up!

[LaserTam]

Thanks for the replies, clearly I must have been unlucky before.

[nebpor]

I bought these euro adaptors BTW - they are well made and solid, unlike most of the crap out there - i'm a heavy user of adaptors
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08DHDW9RV/ref...

[Sy1441]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Worldwide-Adapter-Univers...


I travel a fair bit and always pack one of these. Most things I'm charging (iPhone, Galaxy, Macbook, iPad, Apple Watch, Aripods etc) are all usb A or C now so can charge more than one device at once plus has a standard UK plug space on it for anything power hungry.

[captain_cynic]

miniman said:

Have done it loads of times

Same here. I've done it for years.

I've reached the Nirvana level where I've a 4 port power board with universal sockets and a US NEMA plug. I've used it everywhere and not had an issue (still need and adapter for Europe, but that's not a problem).

Something like this (but with a US plug)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Universal-Power-Including...